Commemoration in America : essays on monuments, memorialization, and memory /
Gobel, David Walter,editor of compilation.
Rossell, Daves,1960-editor of compilation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-314) and index.
Discovering the monumental theme. Why do contemporary monuments talk so much? / Dell Upton -- Memorial observances / Catherine W. Bishir -- Stone witnesses, dumb pictures, and voices from the grave: objects, images, and collective memory in early Boston / Mark A. Peterson -- The triumphal marker. Staging a triumph, raising a temple: Philadelphia's "Welcoming parade" for Lafayette, 1824 / Jhennifer A. Amundson -- "Liberty regulated by law": civic instruction on the George Washington inaugural centennial in Chicago / Ellen M. Litwicki -- The democratic monument: the reframing of history as heritage / Richard M. Sommer and Glenn Forley -- "As a witness upon the field of history": the American elm as commemorative vessel in nineteenth-century New England / Thomas J. Campanella -- The weight of history. Unresolved: the Italian Hall memorial in Calumet, Michigan / Alison K. Hoagland -- Judge Thomas Ruffin and the shadows of Southern history / Sally Greene -- Commemorating the civil rights movement with monuments in the urban South / GlennT. Eskew -- Inventing homelands in Japanese American concentration camps / Lynne Horiuchi -- Forgoing memory. Adorning damnable cities: pro urbis amore and damnatio memoriae / David Lowenthal.
Monuments
Memorialization
Nationalism and collective memory
Art and society